The perils of Apple Hard Drives.

So the hard drive in my Macbook Pro crashed today.  This is the second time in less than 3 months.  I've about had it with Apple's hard drives.  Don't get me wrong, I'm still going to keep using Apple's stuff.  It's performance is good and whatnot, I'm just going to complain about their products for a long time.

When I bought my computer, I was asked if I wanted to purchase Applecare.  Unfortunately, it costs like $300 extra of some dumb amount more.  So of course, sticking to my capitalist ways, I declined.  For two years, my computer was just awesome.  It was fast and everything worked.  Then December 2012 rolls around and everything just decides that it's done.  Just out of nowhere, my computer freezes and I go to restart it.  When I did that, I got the dreaded "folder with a question mark in it" logo.  This means the computer can't access the boot files from the hard drive.  So I go to do the recovery deal that Mountain Lion's running now, but the geniuses put the recovery inside the hard drive, so since the hard drive isn't responding, there's no recovery disk.  I was so mad.

I head on over to the Apple Store where they tell me that my hard drive is dead.  So naturally I tell them to fix it.  They send me home and I come back the next day to a $230 bill and a new hard drive with nothing on it.  I wasn't happy about that except for the fact that the repair cost less than Applecare so at least I didn't lose as much money on the deal as was expected.

Everything was all good for the next few months and I go to turn my computer on again today, and there it was.  The question mark.  This really irritated me.  This happened again.  So this weekend, I have to go do the same thing with the Apple Store all over again.  Except this time I won't be nearly as happy as last time, first because I've got a whole album just waiting to be released in my Garageband folder, and second, I have to pay another $230 with brings the grand total of all my repairs to $460.  That's $160 more than if I would have just paid for Applecare two years ago.  I'm going to lose money on this deal.

Suit up.

JCL